Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR-2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A

Params

3.8 B

Context

128,000

30d

8.2 M

deepseek-ai · B

Params

3.4 B

Context

8,192

30d

2.1 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct	DeepSeek-OCR-2
Parameters	3.8 B	3.4 B
Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration	DeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM
Context length	128,000	8,192
Licence	—	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Unknown	Allowed
Languages	1	1
Downloads 30d	8,170,451	2,081,935
Downloads all time	97.0 M	12.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-01-26	2026-01-27

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.2 M2.1 M

Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct DeepSeek-OCR-2

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-OCR-2 · fp16 8.5 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 17.5 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably